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215 free practice questions at the clinical rotations stage shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 71-year-old man at a restaurant suddenly stands and clutches at his throat during the main course. He cannot speak or make any sound. He is conscious and is s…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 63-year-old man wakes at 5 am with swelling of his lower lip and the left side of his tongue. There is no rash and nothing itches. His voice is normal, his ch…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 58-year-old man who works at a piggery near Griffith, New South Wales, is brought in one February with four days of fever and headache and one day of confusio…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · niche
A 46-year-old warehouse worker has had low back pain for three weeks since lifting a pallet. For the past two days the pain has run down both legs to the feet.…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 71-year-old man presents with two hours of severe left loin pain radiating into the groin, with vomiting. He has never had pain like this before. He smokes 20…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 23-year-old university student is reviewed after being given a salbutamol inhaler by a locum six months ago. He uses it about three times most weeks for chest…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 62-year-old man with treated hypertension develops severe pain between his shoulder blades while carrying a bag of potting mix. It was as bad in the first few…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 46-year-old man with osteoarthritis is brought in three hours after taking twenty-four modified-release paracetamol tablets, each 665 mg, at one sitting. He w…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · niche
A 31-year-old man is brought in after his utility vehicle struck a tree at speed. He is pale and cold and speaks in short phrases. Heart rate 132/min, blood pre…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 19-year-old woman walks into a metropolitan emergency department with her sister ninety minutes after swallowing thirty modified-release paracetamol tablets.…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 19-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department by her flatmate two hours after swallowing a handful of paracetamol tablets following an argument. Sh…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · niche
A 34-year-old man is brought to the emergency department six hours after his general practitioner increased his sertraline and added tramadol for back pain. He…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 46-year-old man who drinks a bottle of spirits most days has vomited for three days and eaten nothing; he stopped drinking two days ago. He is alert, with epi…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · niche
A 19-year-old man is brought in by friends four hours after a party. He is agitated, mumbles continuously and plucks at the bedclothes, and does not know where…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 22-year-old man stood on a garden fork while digging; a tine passed through his boot into the sole of his right foot. The wound is a 3 cm deep puncture with s…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 24-year-old woman rolled her right ankle landing awkwardly at netball two hours ago. She took four steps immediately afterwards and can take four steps now, l…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 34-year-old man is brought in after a petrol fire in a shed. The skin over the whole front of his chest and abdomen is blistered, moist and painful. His right…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 32-year-old woman is brought in after her car left the road and struck a tree at speed. She is alert and cold to touch. Blood pressure 84/52 mmHg, pulse 126/m…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 58-year-old man walks up to the triage desk of a metropolitan emergency department. He says a heavy tightness spread across the front of his chest while he wa…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
An 84-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department after tripping on a rug at home. Radiographs of her wrist and hip show no fracture. She has not been…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common